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Horror: The Supernatural Genre - 972 words
Horror: The Supernatural Genre Horror is an
ancient genre, it roots lodged in ancient myth and
folklore. Since then the genre has evolved, even
sometimes doing without elements of the
supernatural on which the original horror stories
where founded. Despite the emergence of natural
horror, horror which incorporates elements of the
supernatural still remains superior. While horror
can be successful using only natural
circumstances, horror that utilizes elements of
the supernatural evokes a more effective response
from the reader. A Rose for Emily is a good
example of horror which contains no supernatural
elements. While pieces of the story contain the
unusual or violate societal taboos the sto ...
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I Did My Book Report On The Book ,the Amityville Horror Let Me Just Say That This Is One Of The Scariest Books I Have Ever Re - 306 words
I did my book report on the Book ,The Amityville
Horror. Let me just say that this is one of the
scariest books I have ever read. Its about a house
in Amityville, New York that has some thing very
terribly evil and wrong in it. They moved there to
get away from city life, and brought themselves
straight ino what I think was the very heart of
evil. Things go wrong, people get sick,hurt, and
nearly killed. Things seem to appear when they
aren't there, or stuff will move. Sometimes a
violent force would shove someone or knock things
over, and stuff would appear somewhere else. One
thing that scared me most was a creature that the
youngest daughter called,Judy would run around
outside of the hou ...
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Into The Time Warp: The Rocky Horror Picture Show As An Enduring Pop Cult Classic - 1,092 words
Into The Time Warp: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
As An Enduring Pop Cult Classic For years, with
its phenomenal success as a midnight movie, The
Rocky Horror Picture Show has made dont dream it,
be it the motto for its ever-growing cult
audience. The film continues to be regarded by
critics and audiences as the only no-holds-barred,
ultimate theatre experience, which has seemingly
drawn a repeat audience of cult film followers
year after year. More than just a movie, The Rocky
Horror Picture Show (RHPS) has become a community,
a loud, profane, exuberant collection of cult film
freaks freaks: the beautiful, the creative, the
lovers and the lost. Despite its first success as
a play and then i ...
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Into The Time Warp: The Rocky Horror Picture Show As An Enduring Pop Cult Classic - 1,033 words
... cinematic parody and critique, touching upon
subjects such as heterosexual romance, sexual
stereotypes and identifications, and in general,
middle American morality (Katovich and Kinkade
199). The films opening song Science Fiction
Double Feature, pays tribute to many of these
themes and not only sets up the entire plot of the
movie, but also the humorous mood of the film. Dr.
James B. Twitchell, professor of English and
advertising at the University of Florida,
maintains that the certain horror element, which
is satirized in RHPS, is what has made Rocky
Horror such a successful cult film: Just as Young
Frankenstein pokes fun at the Universal
Frankensteins in what is really an affectiona ...
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Morbid Fascinations: Carroll On Horror - 1,209 words
Morbid Fascinations: Carroll On Horror Morbid
Fascinations: Carroll on Horror The Philosophy of
Horror; or Paradoxes of the Heart by Noel Carroll
is an in depth look at the reasons why so many
people are intrinsically drawn to images of horror
and gore and death in film, art, and life. Carroll
discuss the many avenues that people have taken in
the past to explain this phenomenon, this apparent
paradox of how "artistic presentation of normally
averse events and objects can give rise to
pleasure."(Carroll, p 161) This paradox is a
particularly interesting subject with a multitude
of explanations and ruminations with only a few
actually encompassing the full range of the genre.
Horror has an im ...
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The Horror - 1,437 words
The Horror! The Horror! In Heart of Darkness it is
the white invaders for instance, who are, almost
without exception, embodiments of blindness,
selfishness, and cruelty; and even in the
cognitive domain, where such positive phrases as
"to enlighten," for instance, are conventionally
opposed to negative ones such as "to be in the
dark," the traditional expectations are reversed.
In Kurtz's painting, as we have seen, "the effect
of the torch light on the face was sinister" (Watt
332). Ian Watt, author of "Impressionism and
Symbolism in Heart of Darkness," discusses about
the destruction set upon the Congo by Europeans.
The destruction set upon the Congo by Europeans
led to the cry of Kurtz's ...
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Y2k Horror - 1,966 words
Y2K Horror Over the years, the technological world
has advanced rapidly, and humans have come to rely
on computers for just about every aspect of daily
life from education, to communication, to banking,
to electricity, we depend on technology. The Y2K
"bug" seems to be a vicious reminder that our
technology is just a tangled connection of
imperfect, haphazard systems we have come to let
run our lives. The year 2000 or the Y2K problem is
caused by a "short cut" imbedded into many
computer and microchips. In the 1960s, to conserve
what was then precious and expensive memory space,
computer programmers shortened the four-digit year
to use a much more economical two-digit method for
example, 78 ...
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13 Were The Elizabethans More Bloodthirsty Or Tolerant Of - 1,210 words
... repulsiveness. His is a Dionysianism so
passionately self-serving, so deliberate if not
cold-blooded, that, corrosive rather than
life-giving like the Dionysian at its best, it
turns all not only to destruction but to
cheapness, ignominy, pointlessness. -Theodore
Weiss, The Breath of Clowns and Kings, 1974 - The
great stories of murder are about men who could
not have done it but who did. They are not
murderers, they are men. And their stories will be
better still when they are excellent men; not
merely brilliant and admirable, but also, in
portions of themselves which we infer rather than
see. Richard is never quite human enough. The
spectacle over which he presides with his bent
back a ...
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1984 - 957 words
1984 1984 The story 1984, by George Orwell, is set
in the fictional country Oceania, in what is
thought to be the year 1984, which consists of the
Americas, the British Isles, Australia and part of
Africa. The part of Oceania in which 1984 takes
place is referred to as Air Strip One and is
formerly England. Winston, the protagonist of the
story, is faced with a conflict of extreme hatred
against the ultimate antagonist, Big Brother. Big
Brother is the leader of the political party of
Oceania who controls not only actions, but also
thoughts through the thought police and what are
called "telescreens." Winston falls in love with a
girl by the name of Julia, and the two of them
must decide on w ...
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The Question Of Being: What It Is, Why It Matters - 1,317 words
"The Question Of Being": What It Is, Why It
Matters. Martin Heidegger attempts to answer the
"question of Being" by appealing to the
terminology and methodology of Dasein, most
commonly defined as existence. Dasein is not
simply any kind of existence, however, but an
existence that is unique from all other existences
in that it asks the question of existence while
existing in the existence itself. In other words,
one must first understand Dasein in order to
understand Being because Dasein is a kind of being
that is concerned about its very Being. Contrary
to the popular opinion that in order to truly and
clearly comprehend any phenomenon, the subject
which interrogates must necessarily stand ...
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A Brave New World Aldous Huxley 81932, 1946 Aldous Huxley Harpercollins Publishers Ltd Ny,ny 10022 - 1,168 words
A Brave New World. Aldous Huxley. 81932, 1946
Aldous Huxley. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
NY,NY. 10022 . P 1 AA squat grey building of only
thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the
words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING
CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State=s motto,
COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.@ Here is a
document I found on the web which helped me
(embedded as an OLE object) : P 13 ANothing like
oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par.@
AThe lower the caste . . . the shorter the
oxygen.@ P 19 AThey hurried out of the room and
returned in a minute or two, each pushing a kind
of tall dumb-waiter laden, on all its four
wire-netted shelves, with eight-month-old b ...
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A Comparison And Contrast Of Nature - 1,208 words
A Comparison And Contrast Of Nature A Comparison
and Contrast of Nature Professor Liberman 4-02-99
In the Nineteenth century Realism, Naturalism, and
Symbolism were popular modes of expression by
writers of that era. Such modes of expression were
the use of nature in their writings. Two poets
that really stand out among the rest are Charles
Baudelaire (1821-1867) and Paul Verlaine
(1844-1896). Baudelaire was referred to by many as
the first Modern Poet and the father of modern
criticism. Verlaine like Baudelaire was a
symbolist poet, he was also French and referred to
as the Prince of Poets. Both these poets touch on
nature in their poems. It was in Baudelaire's Song
of Autumn I and Verlaine ...
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A Comparison Of Judaism, Islam, Christianity - 1,589 words
... from their homes. Much persecution of Jews by
Christians has been justified by the belief that
the Jews were responsible for the death of Christ.
In Nazi Germany and after the fall of the Third
Reich, many Germans said that even though what
happened to the Jews of Europe during World War
Two was horrible, they did bring it on themselves
because they were responsible for the death of
Jesus. The Christian/Muslim conflicts began during
the seventh century CE, with the fall of the
Byzantine cities in Egypt and the Holy Land within
ten years of the death of Muhammad. "Europeans
watched in horror as the Holy Lands became Muslim
and the "infidel" advanced into Spain" (Fisher,
p.382). This Euro ...
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A Critical Analysis - 328 words
A Critical Analysis A Critical Analysis of Evelyn
Waugh's "Bella Fleace Gave a Party" In the
introduction to "Bella Fleace Gave a Party",
extensive background is revealed to help the
reader understand the times in which the character
lived. It is a time of enormous change in the
political and social structure of these people's
lives. An aging socialite is introduced in many
direct and indirect characterizations. She is
portrayed as a confused and ill-tempered woman
shunned by most because of her nature. Conflict
arises quickly when a distant cousin, her heir,
arrives and covets some books in the house. Bella
responds by selling the books, and decides to
squander the proceeds on repairing the ...
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A Cry In The Night - 1,353 words
... his little cabin in the woods. No- one
besides him was aloud there, and nobody but him
and his mother had ever been there. He told Jen it
was his special place to be at peace and where he
felt he could work his best. Jen understood this,
thinking nothing really of it. Until, Erich
started to leave for days at a time. This really
worried Jen, she also missed her husband. They had
only been married such a short while, she just
could not understand why all of this stuff was
happening. When she went on a walk one day she
stumbled upon something. It was a graveyard. It
was the Kruegar Family Graveyard. Opening the
fence she entered the little space and looked
around. She scanned all the grav ...
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find O Conner - 1,112 words
A Good Man Is Hard To Find- O' Conner The short
story A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery
O'Connor could be viewed as a comic strip about
massacre and martyrdom. What stops it from
becoming a solemn story is its intensity,
ambition, and unfamiliarity. O'Connor blends the
line between humor and terror as she uses a
reasonable use of the unreasonable. She introduces
her audience to the horror of self-love both with
Hulga in Good Country People and with the
grandmother in A Good Man is Hard to Find. The
grandmother is thought of by the community as a
good person and appears to be so on the surface,
but she is also mean and narcissistic. She forces
her family to abide by her wishes; she sees ...
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A Lesson From Oliver - 5,261 words
... had little wish to draw him into this
conversation. I decided to change the subject
quickly. "Coincidentally, yes sir. Why I'm
calling, though, is to inquire about the number of
outboard motors that have gone missing since last
week." "Pardon me?" The tone of his voice took a
sudden sinister turn that sent a twinge through my
bladder. Like the rookie I was, I had made some as
yet unrecognized blunder. I felt the strong urge
to conclude the interview immediately, but it was
too late. He knew my name. He knew my brother's
name. He knew why I'd called. He knew everything.
I'd have to bluff past my own ignorance. "Well, I
was wondering if the police suspected some kind of
theft ring being i ...
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A Separate Peace Thematic Analysis - 765 words
A Separate Peace - Thematic Analysis A Separate
Peace - Thematic Analysis An analysis of John
Knowles A Separate Peace brings up the theme of
man's inhumanity to his fellow man. What makes
this novel unique is that in protesting war,
Knowles never overtly referred to the blood and
gore of war; he showed the consequences of war,
some paralleling the nature of war and some simply
laying out how World War II affected noncombatants
thousand miles away. There have been many books
written about war, what happens, why it happens,
and why wars should stop. Knowles explains through
the life of Finny why war never will cease, with
only one death in the entire book; a quiet one at
that. When Gene is re ...
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A Slaves Life - 1,645 words
A Slave's Life Imagine, if you will, rising
earlier than the sun, eating a mere "snack"-
lacking essentially all nutritional value - and
trekking miles to toil in the unforgiving climate
of the southern states, and laboring until the sun
once again slipped under the horizon. Clad only in
the rags your master provided (perhaps years ago),
you begin walking in the dark the miles to your
"home." As described by the writers Jacob Stroyer
and Josiah Henson, this "home" was actually a mere
thatched roof, that you built with your own hands,
held up by pathetic walls, over a dirt floor and
you shared this tiny space with another family.
Upon return to "home," once again you eat the
meager rations yo ...
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A Thematic Analysis Of Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho - 1,465 words
A Thematic Analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
Arts- Movies A Thematic Analysis of Alfred
Hitchcock's Psycho Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho has
been commended for forming the archetypical basis
of all horror films that followed its 1960
release. The mass appeal that Psycho has
maintained for over three decades can undoubtedly
be attributed to its universality. In Psycho,
Hitchcock allows the audience to become a
subjective character within the plot to enhance
the film's psychological effects for an audience
that is forced to recognise its own neurosis and
psychological inadequacies as it is comp elled
to identify, for varying lengths of time, with the
contrasting personalities of the film's m ...
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